The Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation, Heather Humphreys TD, has announced two new Competitive Start Funds (CSF) totalling up to €1 million to support overseas entrepreneurs and start-ups led by experienced business professionals. The funds, which will run simultaneously, will be administered by Enterprise Ireland. ...

The 2017 Local Enterprise Office Impact Report has just been published and highlights the breadth of job creation, enterprise support and training that is being delivered by Local Enterprise Offices (LEOs) across the country. ...

Enterprise Ireland has announced that its clients, which include former client companies of Local Enterprise Offices, recorded export sales of €22.71bn in 2017, representing a 7 per cent increase on 2016....

Applications for Enterprise Ireland’s Innovation Arena at the National Ploughing Championships, in conjunction with the Irish Farmers Journal, are now being accepted with the deadline extended to the 6th July 2018.
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In thirteen weeks’ time, the National Ploughing Championships (September 18th – 20th), Europe’s largest outdoor event, returns to Offaly and small businesses from all over the country are getting ‘ploughing-ready’ thanks to the Local Enterprise Offices....

An Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, the Minister for Employment Affairs & Social Protection, Regina Doherty, and the Minister of State with special responsibility for Disabilities, Finian McGrath, today launched a government awareness campaign to highlight the range of benefits available to people who are self employed....

Case Studies

Ireland's growing reputation as a destination for customer service contact centres has opened up a gap in the market for local suppliers. Gordon O'Neill, co-founder of cloud-based telecoms provider Goldfish in County Wicklow, tells us how this industry is providing new opportunities for SMEs
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After more than a decade working in accountancy and recruitment, Des Goldrick decided to set-up his own craft beer enterprise. Today, he’s brewing up a storm in his own business, as he takes us on a tour of the Carlingford Brewing Company in County Louth
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We meet National Enterprise Award winner, Mark Clendennen of Applied Concepts in Offaly, to hear how he became the country's only manufacturer of blasting machinery and is now exporting Irish-made industrial equipment around the world from his base in the Midlands ...

We find out how second time around has its business advantages when we meet entrepreneur and LEO client, Miriam Lloyd of Christening Generations, as she takes us on a tour of her dressmaking and design studio....